John Gill and the Free-Will’er

Dr. John Gill once preaching on human inability, a gentleman present was much offended, and took him to task for degrading human nature.

“Pray, sir,” said the doctor, “what do you think that men can contribute to their own conversion?”

He enumerated a variety of particulars.

“And have you done all this?” asked the doctor.

“Why, no, I can’t say I have yet; but I hope I shall begin soon.”

“If you have these things in your power, and have not done them, you deserve to be doubly damned, and are but ill qualified to be an advocate for free-will, which has done you so little good.”

-Taken from Anecdotes Religious, Moral, and Entertaining by Rev. Charles Buck, 1843, pg. 243